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| Finding turns in the Joffre Lakes Basin |
I celebrated my birthday last weekend with a three-day trip to SW British Columbia, continuing the elusive 2013-14 search for powder snow. We caught a great day at Blackcomb with 6-10" of fresh snow on top of a very firm base, with clear skies and amazing views. The masses were stoked! The next day, we explored the backcountry around Joffre Lakes and found a thin layer of windbuffed powder on top of a very thin, crusty snowpack with lots of exposed rocks. In a NE facing basin at the height of winter, the light was tough, but I got a few shots of the peaks across the valley and some half decent images in the shade. The temps were really cold - around 15 deg F - and we had to hike out because of the low snowpack, but we managed to log some mileage on our old-man legs. On our drive back to Portland, we stopped in at Squamish and checked out the nesting bald eagles down by the Squamish River - so cool! Coastal BC is drop-dead gorgeous and only a few short hours from Oregon - go check it out!
